“Your family should be there. Your family should always be there. What does it say about you if they aren't?”

“Life goes on,” she says, like a dare.”

“I thought about mistakes I had made in the past. I thought about when things went wrong. And I realized it was never an issue of intent, but of intensity. I was a good guy, recall.”

“This is the saddest place on Earth," I say."Take it from a rat, kid--there are lots of saddest places on Earth.”

“Fate is a bitch, but there you go.”

“The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.”

“Don’t fuck yourself waiting for fair. Understand? Listening? You will fuck yourself waiting for fair.”